A lot of commenters wrote that Freddie looks like a "mini Louis." One person commented, "He's getting so big & looking more like his daddy." Another fan replied to the photo, "Freddie [sic] really takes after his father." at college campus polling sites force frustrated students away, and 16-year-olds on the front lines of social movements are deemed too young to cast ballots. So many others — due to a lack of information or time, language barriers, or suffocating voter suppression laws and tactics — are prevented from exercising this most fundamental of rights, and they are all part of a decades-long struggle to carve out a place in our imperfect democracy. to practice our religious beliefs or possess sacred objects like eagle If you want to be a coalition and a movement builder, if you want to be an activist, look at the early days of the civil rights movement — which we’re still in. People always talk about it as some sort of bookend, especially when they're telling the evolution of the experience for Black Americans. They’ll have you thinking that Rosa sat, and Medgar died, and Martin gave a speech, and John Lewis crossed a bridge, and suddenly we had freedom. That does not acknowledge the many defeats along the way. Also, in elevating those most iconic luminaries, there were millions more who sent up a prayer, who packed a lunch, who wrote a strategic plan, who marched, who are nameless and faceless to us. But their role in history is undeniable. If you look at the early days of the movement, theFreedom Rides were seven monthstheGreensboro sit-inswere six months, theMontgomery Bus Boycott was 382 days